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cogent(adjective) Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing. Synonyms: weightyUsage: Having put forth an indisputably cogent argument, Sally won the debate.
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1: having the power of compelling or constraining <the cogent forces of nature> 2a : appealing persuasively to the mind or reason : convincing <a cogent argument> <a cogent description> <criticism that shows his argumentative style at its most cogent — Edmund Wilson> b : being pertinent, concise, and often timely : to the point : relevant <a cogent analysis of the problem> <studied writing … in order to be able to write cogent and expert briefs — Current Biography> <the 14th chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, which says some cogent things about the futility of aspiration — C. B. Marshall> Origin of COGENT
Latin cogent-, cogens, present participle of cogere to drive together, collect, compel, from co- + agere to drive — more at agent First Known Use: 1659 (sense 1) Synonyms: compelling, conclusive, convincing, decisive, effective, forceful, persuasive, satisfying, strong, telling
Antonyms: inconclusive, indecisive, ineffective, uncompelling, unconvincing, unpersuasive
Related Words: authoritative, definitive; sound, valid, well-founded; important, significant, weighty; material, pertinent, relevant
Near Antonyms: groundless, invalid, shaky, unfounded, unsound; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant; immaterial, irrelevant; feeble, weak
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A cogent argument:Cogency. Just as we can evaluate valid arguments in terms of the actual truth or falsity of their premises, we can evaluate invalid arguments. A cogent argument is a strong argument in which all the premises are actually true in our world. This means that any argument that is either weak, or strong with at least one false premise, is uncogent. Consider the following argument: Premise: All swans observed so far are white. Conclusion: All swans are white. This is quite a strong argument, but, unfortunately, black swans have now been observed in Australia. Thus the premise is false, and the argument is uncogent. http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/harrell/writingvocab.html
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Though I truly believe that I have a cogent argument, for the jailing of G.W. Bush for war crimes, and crimes against humanity, sadly it falls upon deaf ears.
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Though I truly believe that I have a cogent argument, for the jailing of G.W. Bush for war crimes, and crimes against humanity, sadly it falls upon deaf ears.
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Weighty ? That's the only synonym we get ? Ayeesh !
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